Sayre, Annie Elvira

Passed: 1917-03-25

Age: 21

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Death Notice: 1917-03-27

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Information: Annie Elvira Sayre, youngest child of Mr. and Mrs. Joel Sayre, was born October 6, 1895 and died March 25, 1917, age 21 years, 5 months and 19 days.  She was a dutiful daughter, kind to all and her sudden demise was a great shock to her family and her many friends.  She was a faithful attendant of the U. B. church.  The loved and loving daughter, sister, and friend, had not passed on life's highway the stone that marks the highest point, but being weary for a moment, she laid down by the wayside, and using her burden for a pillow, fell into that dreamless sleep that kisses down her eyelids still.  While yet in love with life and enraptured with the world, she passed into silent and pathetic dust.  Yet, after all, it may be best.  Just in the happiest hour of all the voyage while eager winds are kissing every sail, to dash against the sunken rock and in an instant hear the billows roar--a sunken ship.  For whether in mid sea or among the breakers of the farther shore, a wreck must mark at last the end of each and all.  Every life, no matter if it's every hour is rich with love and every moment jeweled with a joy, will, at its close, become a tragedy as sad and deep and dark as can be woven of the warp and woof of mystery and death.     This brave and tender girl in every storm of life was oak and rock, but in sunshine she was vine and flower.  She who sleeps here, when dying whispered ""I am ready now.  Do not grieve for me, for we wll will be united on the everlasting shore."" She is survived by her aged father and mother, a brother, Okey J., Mrs. Viola Scarberry, of Parkersburg, Miss Cora Sayre of Pittsburg, Mrs. Ruie Starcher of Akron, Mrs. Lizzie Davis and Mrs. Elva Steward, both of Ripley.  Two brothers and two sisters preceded her to the grave.  L. C. B.